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TWO DISCOURSES, 



OCCASIONED BY THE DECEASE 



HON. DANIEL P. KING. 



PREACHED AT DANVERS, 



JULY 28, 1850, 



BY F. P. APPLETON, 

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MINISTER OF THE FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETV. A-O"^ » 

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PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. 



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PRINTED BY GEORGE R. CARLTON, 
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FIRST DISCOURSE. 



" I have glorified Thee on the earth, I have finished the work which Thou gavest 
me to do. — John xviii, 4. 

It is not possible to say more of any life than this. "It has ac- 
complished the work God gave li to do." You can place before 
yourself no higher aim than this — to finish the work God trusts to 
your fidelity. And I have taken these words this morning, that we 
may ponder upon, and view more clearly, this high aim and bright 
Ideal of Life. If we can impress it upon ourselves, and by com- 
munion with its truth, rouse our aspirations and brace our energies 
for a nobler and stronger course ; if thoughts of Christ or of any 
true friends — God's generous blessings to our hearts — shall move us 
to press forward more urgently on the Christian's immortal race^ 
then this will indeed be a sacred, hfe-giving occasion. 

God grant it may ; for our work is vast, our power great, our in- 
fluence wide, and our calling high. God grant it may; for though 
at every time earth needs the constant tribute of her children, there 
yet come hours when, above all, a voice from Heaven and earth tells 
us we must be faithful ; shows us our work, entreats us to perform it. 
When we have, for a time, forgotten the deep earnestness of life ; 
when we have become neglectful of real sincerity, and suffered cus- 
tom to dim our purity and hide the light within ; when the good, who 
have spoken many words of love and truth and freedom, when the 
honest, who have been strong in principle, when these pass from our 
sight and can only be heard and seen by the purified sense and ear- 
nest spirit, then above all, we need to brace our energies and lift our 
prayers for a truer life. And this is such an hour. 

There is one truth, my friends, which you and I need to hold at 
all times ; bearing it through every way of life, a talisman of strength, 



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a spell, by which in all temptation, victory is won. A truth which 
custom cannot change or time weaken ; urgent amid the smallest, as 
well as the greatest duties. This truth — that we are God's servants, 
God's children, serving Him ; God's beloved children, entrusted by 
Him with his eternal designs ; immortal souls, consecrated by God 
to His service ; apostles, sent forth by Him, even as the early chris- 
tian disciples were by their Master and friend ; ambassadors of the 
Highest, whose message is from above, to speak it everywhere, to 
show it in all places, to make it plain by our whole lives. That we 
are sent here, and have this wondrous life given, not for ourselves, 
but for others, — yea and for God. Through darkness, through light, 
through love, through hate, understood or misunderstood, still our 
work changes not, and our true life is the service of God. 

We all believe this truth perhaps ; but we want to believe it in- 
tensely. It ought to be the one great, foremost, awakening, enno- 
bling truth for us. We accept it now, but we ought to seize and 
hold it, clasping it to our hearts, rooting it in our souls, as the source 
and end of Being. We do not reject it now, but we ought to prize 
and treasure it, as the watchword of true salvation, the key of Life 
and Immortality. 

You know that the leading idea which a man has, makes his life. 
That which stands highest in his soul, the thing which most he 
he worships, rules his life and shapes his actions as it will. Our 
actions and words are the interpreters of the life which we most 
earnestly cherish within. It is the man within, that stamps his im- 
press on the man without, as seal upon the wax. Whatever reigns 
within, reigns without also. Your hands and tongue must worship 
what your soul worships. If you worship God within, you worship 
Him too in your words, you worship Him in your actions. It is the 
same God. You cannot have two. The God of your thought and 
the God of your action, must be the same ; good or bad ; whether 
the God of heaven or an earthly God, He rules you. 

Your life then, depends upon the thought you enthrone within 
your souls. Make that high, and your life cannot be low. Now we 
know we are God's children, sent here to work for him. We see this 
to be the great practical truth of life. But unless it reigns within 
we cannot feel its power. Where it stays day after day, dethroned 
in our souls, we cannot see its worth and dignity. We revere it less 



and less, and it were better for us that we had never seen it or heard 
it, or known it in any way. It is not want of spiritual truth which 
keeps us down below the saints and angels, and below our true life, 
but it is the want of deep and constant reverence for this spiritual 
truth. This is the great evil of our lives. The best we know, 
is not the highest we worship. This is the cause of shame and woe 
and weakness. We have light enough to make our earthly path 
bright and glorious, like the way of heaven. The uplifted eye and 
revering soul is Avhat we need ; and this we must, with God's aid, 
make for ourselves. 

Take then this truth you have, that you are God's child, sent here 
to do his work and fulfil his will, take it and lead it up among the 
crowd of thoughts and motives in your soul, up where it should be, 
to the highest place ; and then bow down before and worship and 
serve it there. So your life will be the service of God, the ful- 
filment of your Father's will. 

And more that word of Jesus speaks to us, "I have finished the 
work thou gavest me to do." We are led by it to another thought. 
The finishing of God's work, the accomplishment of his purpose. 
This is only an end and sure consequence of the reign of this truth 
we have already considered. Have you not noticed that in every 
good life, there is a certain completeness, a harmony, a balance and 
unity ? Look at it from what point you will, it is the same com- 
plete life. You have not necessarily to stand here or there, to see 
that it is complete. You may look at it from any place. You may 
view it as a whole, or in its parts ; judge it by a single action, or by 
the deeds of a long course of years, it is the same. Break it oflF 
suddenly, stop it in mid course of usefulness by the grave. It is to 
that point, a true, complete life. Remove the grave — which never 
yet stood in the way of any truly good life — and lo, it has joined 
the heavenly existence ; there is no discord, no jar. It mingles 
with that higher state of being, as the river of life might flow into the 
ocean of life. It is complete. It satisfies. Stand at the point of 
passing ; stand where that clear river of love and truth and thought, 
which long has cheered the scenes of earth, enters the heavenly 
country, to flow deeper and wider and stronger amid its immortal 
gardens and celestial mountains ; stand where it enters there, and 
whether you look back upon the past course of that life river, or 



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foward upon what the prophecy within tells us of its course to come, 
you see no painful contrast. The past course was all tending to the 
future, and the future, seems but the past, glorified by growth and 
power. So test it where you will, a good life is complete. And 
why? How is it? We certainly do not feel our lives are always 
complete. Stop them at this moment and see. There are deeds 
of kindness we have omitted in the past. There are duties we 
have half performed. We treated them carelessly, and unless we 
can go back and complete these duties, our true work cannot be con- 
sidered finished. In short, up to this moment, we have not done all 
of God's work. We have the part, but not the whole ; and so any 
sudden check upon our lives shows them very incomplete. How is 
it then, on looking at the truly good life, we see such perfect, or at 
least so great a degree of completeness ? Simply for this reason, 
friends. Those good lives are complete, because their parts are 
complete. They are made up of years of duty, and these of months, 
and these of days, and these of hours, and these of minutes, of duty 
well performed — completed duty. They are made up of greater and 
lesser duties, and these, each and all, are thoroughly done. So 
when these all are bound together, making as they do a life, the 
whole is complete — the life is complete. 

And how have beings like ourselves been able to live such lives ; 
accomplishing the least as well as the greatest duties well ? How 
have there been such harmony, unity and consistency, in all portions 
of their varied life ? Now we are led back to the truth with which 
I began, the regal truth of life. These true souls devoted them" 
selves to the fulfilment of God's will. They felt He had given them 
something to accomplish in life. They held all duty shown them, to 
be sacred ; and treated it as divine. 

This, my friends, I think is the truth which arouses and sustains 
in its course, every Ufe that thoroughly does God's work. Such, 
surely was the thought which reigned in the soul of Jesus, enabling 
him, as he looked back upon his life to say, " I have glorified Thee 
on the earth, I have finished the work Thou gavest me to do." 

And in this sense only, can we say a life is finished. In the 
sense that, so far as the days and hours of that life went, the duty 
God had placed in them was accomplished. In this sense, but in no 
other. No life ends. No earthly life ends. Take away its days 



and hours ; there yet remains one thing you have not taken ; one 
thing you never can destroy. The influence of that life. In this, 
it still lives on earth. Yes, there you have touched its Immor- 
tality. Death comes no more to that, than it does to the serene 
life of Heaven. At the very hour Jesus said his " work was fin- 
ished," his work for man was scarce begun — nay, it is but begun 
now. Even his life on earth was not finished ; for is it not that life, 
that Savior life lived in Judea, that life of completeness upon which he 
was looking back, when he said his work was done, is it not now 
moving and swaying and regenerating by its undying example the 
lives of millions ; slowly, yet in the end to conquer ? His course 
finished, and his work done ! Why its earliest morning is but now 
breaking upon us. No ! when you speak of the good, speak of them 
as living here now, though they entered Heaven a thousand years of 
earthly time agone. When you speak of the true, speak of them as 
bearing their witness to-day, for freedom, Christ and God, whether 
they died in the earliest age of earth, or passed onward, but yester- 
day. 

Such thoughts as these, my friends, have come this last week, as 
I have remembered the life, and seen the death, of one who has been 
a true friend to me and to many of you ; known to you all, through 
a series of years of public life. A faithful friend, an honorable man, 
and one who strove to be a Christian. 

Since I have been with you, many good and pure, whose friendship 
is dear to me, have entered upon the higher life ; and I have not 
spoken particularly of them in this place, because there is a certain 
sanctity about the private life of the good. We would not break in 
upon that, even when they are in Heaven. We will speak of them 
where their lives were most seen and felt, — in their homes, and our 
homes. But with this friend, the case is different. They whom we 
call from their homes, and place in public stations, are kept before us 
constantly. There is little privacy in their lives. We scrutinise 
their actions and their motives ; and when excited by party spirit, 
talk harshly about them. It is but simple justice, when they pass to 
the higher life, and we know them to have been good and honorable, 
that we publicly should speak, and render willing testimony to their 
lives. For this reason above all, I mention here our friend, of whom, 
in one sense we can say, his work is finished. Restraining the strong 



language which love and gratitude urge me to use, I speak of him 
and his life, calmly, as the truth bids. 

I have said he finished his work. Suddenly as he died, when 
a score of years for future usefulness seemed prophecied by his 
calm energy, and health unbroken by any excess — suddenly as he 
laid his armor by, his work was done. More truly of him, than of 
most, it can be said " he accomplished the work his Father gave him 
to do." Because as I well know, he looked to that Father for 
guidance, and heeded his word. Because he trusted God, more 
than man, and tried to serve man, by serving his God. His work 
was accomplished ; because whenever it came, in whatever form, his 
aim was, to do it faithfully. The slight duty was respected, even as 
the greatest. That which but one would ever hear of, nay, no one 
but God, promptly as though a million eyes were watching. He 
helped the poor widow, earnestly and willingly as he did the well 
known and powerful — and it is such unknown virtue as this, the 
angels of. Heaven smile down upon. 

He filled many ofiices of private and public life. Few men ever 
filled them all so faithfully. I think he did his best in all. I think 
he was faithful to his light. Proofs of this have come to me from so 
many and such diverse sources, that I have been surprised and 
deeply touched. The tribute has been the same, from the little 
child, to the trembling form of age ; from the inmost heart of home 
and friendship, to the not easily touched nature of official station at 
Washington. Without my seeking, they have come to me. I speak 
only what these all have spoken. 

He did not change his profession with his place. The politician's 
curse rested lightly upon him — nay, he cast it off. He worshipped 
his God, and loved his Savior, and was kind to the unfortunate, alike 
where these virtues were, and were not popular. He was the faith- 
ful father and husband and friend, from year to year, whether with, 
or away from home and friend. He did not slight the inexperienced, 
though he had been taught by experience. Mature himself in years, 
one at least I know, had good reason to feel that he sympathised 
with and encouraged youth. 

Amid the wild turmoil of passion and corruption in our nation's 
councils, he kept his nobleness of purpose. His quiet word weighed 
much there, because a man spoke it. 



But I say no more now. Further consideration of our friend's 
life I reserve till we meet here again. I am giving no eulogy. His 
life is his best eulogy. I have used words which to my feelings 
seem weak and icy, in order that I might keep, as I have kept, far 
within the bounds of truth. 

There is a lesson in such a life ; a word from Heaven for you and 
me. There is aid, counsel and encouragement, by taking which to 
ourselves, we shall be the better able to finish the work our Father 
has given us to do. 



SECOND DISCOURSE. 



•' I have glorified thee on the earth — I have finished the work thou gavest me tw 
do." — John, xviii. 4. 

I endeavored this morning, to trace out the meaning of these 
words, and the truth they convey for our daily practice. I referred, 
too, to that friend of ours and of his country, who, this last week, 
passed on to serve his God in another stage of being. 

There are other thoughts appropriate to the occasion. Thoughts 
of our duty to man and God, and of fit respect to him who, by most 
of us, has been known so long. 

We have noticed the meaning of Jesus when he spoke of the Avork 
God had given him to do, and found that we too, have our work from 
God ; indeed that our life is given for us to do that work. That he 
sends us forth as apostles, teachers, and ambassadors of his eternal 
purposes. And that, when this truth reigns in the soul, as the one 
great predominant truth, the imperial influence within us — then, and 
then alone, we accomplish the designs of God. 

When every duty is thus done as a sacred duty, then at whatever 
point our life may be viewed, and whenever arrested, it is complete ; 
up to that time our work is finished. 

Well said Jesus, when, looking upon his life, he saw it to have 
been thus lived — " I have glorified Thee, Father, on the earth." 
What other way is there for us, or Christ, to glorify God ? If you 
do not do this by your life, you do not do it at all. If you do not 
the work God gives you, you cannot glorify him ; and whenever you 
do perform your duty you do glorify God. The smallest duty as 
well as the greatest, done^ is glory given by man to his maker. All 
beside, is worthless and profane. Test your lives then, by this ; and 
until your duty is performed, never believe that you worship God. 
Everything which is right is God's design ; what He shows you to 
be right, is the portion of His design you are to accomplish. There 



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is a right, even as there is a Gol, and your part is to defend and 
uphold that right. You and I are not here to do what is expedient, 
or to please men. We are to serve God, and so help men. Every 
benefactor of his race, has been a benefactor, only so far as he has 
done this. 

It is mournful to see so little of this spirit in our nation, — to look 
forth, and find our shops, and homes, and churches, and houses of 
legislation, such strangers to this faith. Popular favor sought in our 
places of business, appearances worshipped in our homes, mean cau- 
tion in our churches, and compromise in our National Legislature. 
Policy before principle ; man before God ; expediency before Truth ; 
caution before Faith. — These are our mottoes, written out by our 
actions for Heaven and Earth to see. 

I claim no pecuUar virtue for myself. I say we do this, and I 
think it cannot be denied. We want a different spirit, or our life 
work never will be done. We want a higher aim, or we never shall 
be strong; and God will give his work to more faithful souls. 

In the morning I made private application of this truth ; now I 
give it pubUc appliance. Yet, one just as religious, for true religion 
is the true service of God, and He is to be served everywhere. 

It is mournful, I say, to see so little of the spirit of devotion to 
right, and therefore God's design, abroad in the homes, places of 
worship, business, and legislation of our country. Look at Washing- 
ton, where for many months the question of slavery or freedom, for 
millions yet unborn, has been the great and only question. What 
has been the course there ? 

Do not, now, say this is a political matter, not be intruded upon 
the Sabbath or the pulpit. I call the liberty of milUons, the question 
of their freedom to worship God, to have their souls enlightened and 
their hearts and homes unpolluted, a religious matter ; a matter 
entering into the very essence of Christianity. What idea of Jesus 
and Christianity can you have, to suppose the life and purity of 
millions nothing in their sight ! Say you, Christianity counsels 
peace, and by speaking of this wrong, in Churches and on Sabbaths, 
you.break their peace ? Ah, there comes up expediency again, that 
serpent of our day ; doing the same work the serpent of old did> 
though in a diflferent way. That serpent ofifered man the knowledge 
of good and evil, while this serpent does the worst work of all ; — he 



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takes away the knowledge of good and evil ; and they who listen, see 
evil and call it good, and hearing good, think it evil. This question 
not a religious one ! Think you our friend, whose place here 'tis 
hard to think will know him no more, he who, so shortly before his 
work was finished, bore witness in all Christian manliness, against 
compromise with slavery — think you that, from the Heavenly life, he 
looks not back with serene joy upon the witness he then bore ? 
That, which our hearts tell us may well enter the thoughts of angels, 
is surely worthy to be spoken of here. 

I say then, again, look at Washington, where for so many months 
the great question of slavery or freedom for millions, has been the 
only question, and see what has been passing there. What have our 
greatest minds, — at least we call them so — our wisest legislators, 
such we term them, the men who, for a quarter of a century or 
more, have led in our nation's councils — what have they been doing ? 
And what have a large proportion of our people — people too, who so 
far as they hve in the north, at the last election canvass, were such 
dear friends of the slave, and abhorers of slavery ; who fiirly made 
the anti-slavery reformers' store of pointed terms and strong words, — 
trite, tame and commonplace, so often did they use them ; — what 
have these very people been for months upholding these great minds 
and wise legislators in doing ? Why, in arranging, ornamenting and 
gilding a compromise, so that it shall not look altogether too wicked 
to be accepted in our homes and churches. 

The question has been, how shall we compromise ; not, what is 
Right. How shall we settle the matter ; not how ought it to be 
settled. What will the South bear, or what will the North bear ; 
and not, what does God bid us do. The South is not God. The 
North is not God. The Constitution is not God. The Union is not 
God. What are these men, their upholders, and we, sent into the 
world for, but first of all, to serve God ? If they and we do this, we 
shall surely serve all that is right, in South and North ; in the Con- 
stitution and the Union. But serving God, we cannot serve anything 
that is wrong in South or North, or Constitution or Union. Here 's 
the trouble. And so we forsake God, as impracticable, and worship 
compromise, which in such cases, seems a useful, but is a terrible 
master. 



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The question would have been settled long ago, had every man 
there served his God and truth, as he has less worthy masters. God 
makes the way of his servants very plain. lie relieves them from 
all necessity of watching public opinion, courting votes, fearing man 5 
inventing compromises, breaking principles, or insulting truth. The 
way of right is straight. They who follow it move fast. Policy and 
compromise are very crooked. Our Congress have been six months 
travelling, and have made little progress. Oh for men who know 
there is a God and serve him truly, to rise up now and speak the 
word of truth. Oh for men worthy of the name, who worship and do 
not fear the Plight. We need them to lead us. We cannot let 
them go when once we have them. 

Not long since, amid all this corruption, one man rose and spoke 
thus: — " In my judgment, this question of the spread of Slavery is 
not a question of expediency, but of right ; not a matter of fancy, or 
of choice, but of stern duty ; not a shadowy abstraction, but a thing 
of body and soul and spirit. In our deference to superior wisdom 
and respect for long experience, we must not forget our own respon- 
sibility. Our own conscience though it be but a taper light, to us 
steady and constant must be the lamp that guides our feet. The 
distrust of our own powers, will be no excuse for the neglect of our 
duties. We cannot disobey the promptings of our own deliberate 
judgment, and the convictions of our own understandings. In mat- 
ters of principle and conscience, as no one can share with me the 
responsibility and suflfer for me the penalties of a crime, I can and 
will permit no one to direct ray course. * * * I think I know one 
man, who neither from dread of abuse, nor fear of opprobrium, will 
smother his sentiments or sacrafice his independence. 

Louisiana, Florida and Texas, have been acquired, and are de- 
voted to slavery. California, New Mexico, and Utah are yet 
unshackled ; they must be sacred to freedom. They stretch out 
their hands to us, and beg that we will not bind the unwilling victims, 
nor drag them up to the altar of unholy sacrifice. In the whole of 
that country, whether it be broken up into rugged and inaccessible 
mountains, or spread in desert sands, or vital in green fields and fer- 
tile valleys, as far as my influence and my vote can go, that soil shall 
be free ; and the men and the women, whatever complexion an 
African or an Indian sun may have burned upon them, shall tread 
that soil free, erect and unshackled." 



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Hear these words friends. They are words which he, though 
dead, yet speaks to us. They are worthy Avords wherewith to have 
closed his course. They are words needed to be heard again and 
again in that House, where he labored so diligently for what to him 
was right. 

I know that he tried to serve his God there. I know that he en- 
deavored to be faithful to the cause of truth and freedom. Therefore 
there, where the wise and prudent are stumbling, and the sagacious 
are at fault, and intellect and statesmanship blindly dig pitfalls for 
themselves and others, this man could stand by himself in the right 
place, and speak the right word. Simply because his aim was to 
serve God. Oh ! there is no light like that God gives his faithful 
children. Sincere men differ in their judgment ; — they may be 
forced to regard as wrong and oppose each other ; but in the end, 
in matters of undoubted principle, they work together for the good 
result. 

Do you not know, my friends, that it is hard for us always to serve 
God by doing our whole duty faithfully ? Do you and I not know 
that even in our homes, with duty plain before us, and no voice to 
bewilder or threaten or disturb, we often are conquered where we 
ought to be victorious ? What must it be then, to be true in such an 
atmosphere of evil as rests upon our Capitol. 

"You cannot know," said one to me who has had some hard con- 
flicts with temptation there, " what strength, decision, and invincible 
courage are needed to keep one true. You are attacked on every 
side by hidden and open foes ; plausible reasons and earnest words 
are used to make you yield, and before you know it, by one single 
word perhaps, you are compromised and led away." Then though 
a strong opponent, with deep respect and affection, he spoke of our 
friend whose labors there are over now. And that this friend was 
true when so many failed, we ought to thank God, and pay deep re. 
spect and gratitude to his memory. 

My friends, as I said this morning, so I repeat now — I am giving 
here no eulogy. Let his life do that. Not because he was a kind 
friend to me, do I speak. I should say what I have, had he been 
my enemy. Not because he has risen to Heaven. The dead, as we 
call them, need our praises less, much less, than the living. Not 
because of his friends. There are other places than this, in which 



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to recount with them his good deeds. Not because he was one hon- 
ored with office ; but because I hold him to have been a true man, 
by whose faithfulness, the office which he held was honored. He 
gave worth to that ; not that to him. Because by such a life, and 
by every true life, God teaches us ; because we for our own sakes 
need to gaze upon and follow the footsteps of those who tread the 
upward way of honor. 

We have long had him with us. Sunday after Sunday, unless 
absent at his post of duty, we have met him here, where together we 
seek light from Heaven. To some of us he has been well known in 
our homes ; to some, a near and dear friend for many years. And 
now, unless strengthened by his influence, we devote ourselves more 
truly than ever before to Right and Freedom, we and our nation have 
met with a great, an irreparable loss. At this time too, when the 
great crisis comes, and one true or one false word may turn the scale 
for liberty or slavery through years, the absence of the true man 
weighs heavily. But if we now take upon ourselves the added duty, 
if we are ready to carry on the work which he finished to the day he 
left it, the loss which has been his gain, will be our gain also ; and 
we be nobler, and truth and liberty increase. Though the good man 
pass away, the life of earth shall still be better, if only, they who 
remain, accomplish their Father's work. 

Man cannot fill again the place our friend has filled in his home 
and in the hearts of his friends ; only God and spiritual communion 
can do this. But there is a place which another must take. That 
post where freedom is to be defended and our Nation's honor upheld. 
By whom it shall be taken, rests with you among others; and if ever 
the voice of gratitude and of God summoned men to put aside all 
lower motives, of party, of prejudice, and of selfishness, and be guid- 
ed in their choice by real zeal for freedom and desire to serve God, 
that voice speaks now to you. In the name of Crod and Christ and 
the crowd of heavenly witnesses around^ I charge you he true to this 
duty. Be true, though you stand alone; and verify these words, 
the last our friend spoke of us in the councils of the nation. " In my 
home," he says, " we have been taught to feel and believe that slavery 
must not be extended ; the sentiment cannot be checked, hardly 
controlled ; it rolls down our mountain sides, it flows over our plains, 
it pervades our cities — but brings no madness nor desolation in its 



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path ; our men are resolute men, thej will maintain their rights. 
They are honest men, they will yield to others their rights." 

The changes are great and startling that have come of late in the 
high places of our nation. The sudden removal of eur Chief Magis- 
trate, in whose integrity many believed and hoped. The sudden 
calling away of this our friend, whose strength was broken by his 
constant labor and arduous service for the truth ; by pain for the 
loss of principle around him ; by disappointment from those to whom 
he looked for good counsel and honorable courtesy, and by the death 
of him, whom through personal knowledge he respected and esteemed. 
We hear it said again and again, that such deaths are lessons to us. 
Say rather it is the life, and not the death of a friend, which is the 
great legacy to us. It is this must teach us and make us stronger. 

Again then, I say, my friends, if in this our friend, companion, 
and fellow-worshipper's life, you see aught true and pure and worthy, 
cherish it well. Take it to yourselves. Make him live again in 
your lives. Join him still in worship each Sunday, by worshipping 
God sincerely. Souls below and those above but one communion 
make, when in prayer and life they unite themselves in the service 
of their God. 




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